[amayausers.com] Re: Auto digitize
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Let me throw my 3¢ in...I know, someone expected me to do it anyways...
business card logos are the worst to try to duplicate-but if you know some
tricks, easy to do.
Scanning them generally is not worth it-because most of your business cards are
printed with 'thermographic' inks-as the ink cures, it 'puffs' to give that
great 'feel' on the card. So when you scan it-you get all the bumps and puffs
instead of nice clean lines.
BUT, the majority of people that bring in a business card as a 'logo'-didn't go
through a graphic person to get that logo-they picked from the book of clipart
at the 'printshop'. I have probably a dozen disks of clipart-collected over the
years-and 75% of the time I can find that clipart and bingo-vector line art and
do what I need to with it.
Otherwise-I run it in on my scanner, 300% at least magnification, 300 or 600
dpi. Depends on the detail which I use.
I take this image into photoshop, play around with brightness & contrast, and
turn it into as sharp and crisp an image as I can.
Then I bring that new image into my art program (Freehand, but many use
Illustrator or CorelDraw) and copy by hand outlining or tracing, or a
combination. Then I have a full 'line art (vector line) drawing that I can
clean up, tweak, restore full curves, straight lines, etc. Remember-I've got 20
years of doing this-so for me it is easy. A beginner (like I used to be) can
easily spend a couple hours. But the more you do it, the faster you get.
Then you can bring that final design into Designshop. IF you can get
autodigitize to work right, just click on ONE section at a time-don't do the
whole image. Don't bother to digitize any lettering-do that with your stock
fonts. Much faster and neater.
Alternative? there's a couple companies out there that will give you 24 hr
turnaround on converting any image (scan, print, etc.) into clean vector line
art. Riptaw Graphics is one I know. For $15 and up, you just send THEM the scan
or copy and let them do it.
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